LOTRO Developer Twitter Chat - Thursday March 21, 3:00PM Eastern Time

[Sapience]

Come chat with members of the LOTRO Team!

When: Thursday March 21, 2013 at 3:00PM Eastern time.
Where: http://www.twitter.com/lotro

Members of the LOTRO dev team will be answering your questions live on Twitter starting at 3:00PM Eastern time. To ask a question, just tweet it to us @lotro and be sure to include the hashtags #LOTRO and #DEVCHAT.

Please remember to keep your questions short, as we’ll be re-tweeting your questions along with the answers. Twitter has a 140 character limit per tweet, so we mean short!

The following members of the LOTRO Team will be answering your questions.

• Aaron “Rowan” Campbell - Senior Producer
• Derek Flippo – Design Director
• Matt "Hoarsedev" Zimmitti - Lead Systems Designer
• Lauren “Budgeford” Salk - Senior Content Designer (Region Gameplay and Content)
• Matt “Scarycrow” Fahey - World Builder
• Evan "Verizal" Graziano - Associate Systems Designer (Classes, Items, Mounted Combat)
• Rick “Sapience” Heaton - Community Manager

Can't make the chat but what to ask a question? Post your questions here and we'll answer some of them as well.

After the chat ends a complete transcript will be posted.

[Nyrion]

Any plans to change the Virtues system, in particular reduce the slayer deed grind that discourages alts?

Rivendell redesign? PLEASE?

Any plans for another region revamp in the style of Evendim/Moria anytime soon? Perhaps the Trollshaws or MM?

[RSmuppet]

Any plans for regions which are near very well established areas, but not yet built, (such as the South Downs,) to ever come into being?

I'm interested to know: what sources do you use when checking the lore, story and history of Middle-Earth?

Will the Epic Quests, or any story line, ever come back through somewhere like Bree and give us new challenges in old territory?

Thank you all for your time taken to do the devchats/questions etc!

[furtim]

Any plans to rework the Fellowship Maneuver system along with the classes? I recall vague whispers about this around the time of Isengard.

[bohbashum]

in reference to the dev dairy of might to agi for warden

some of you on our forums have speculated that this change is in some way tied to the upcoming class changes hinted at in our Dev Chats. <_< … >_> …maaaaybe.

my question:
will wardens be doing MOAH! damage in class update with agility? I know you hinted to something in the dev dairy...

I know many want an answer to "why" might to agi, we all know it wasn't for just items can you give us a better hint :P

[Sezneg]

Token Creep Question:

Will there be any interm balance/bug fixing for the moors prior to the class overhauls being worked on for later this year (web the earth bug, balance problems with U10, etc).

Also, will creeps be getting a decent pass as part of the class overhauls? What will you do to make sure we're up to snuff in the new environment you are creating?

[AaylaKheledlire]

War-steeds are looks great! Only 1 thing left. Are you gonna add bridles to horses?

[Rasdun]

Any plans to rework the Fellowship Maneuver system along with the classes? I recall vague whispers about this around the time of Isengard.

There was a similar question posed in last month's twitter chat:

Q13 YageerSilverscale - While developing Draigoch's lair the dev team mentioned a CJ revamp. Do you still have plans on that? #LOTRO
A13 JWB - Yes. Once the dust has settled from the class updates and we're prepping content these will have more relevance in I'm hoping to get this done. #LOTRO

So doesn't sound like there'll be more info until after the class revamps. [I like CJs and was curious about this too.]

[Tulcavaryar]

Any plans to help hunters and burglars get their mitigations above 40% more easily? (42-45% when traited with around 800-900 vit would be nice, or 50% with a 10-12k rating).

[furtim]

There was a similar question posed in last month's twitter chat:

So doesn't sound like there'll be more info until after the class revamps. [I like CJs and was curious about this too.]

Oh, thanks! Dunno how I missed that the first time.